USA TODAY articles from March 2007

USA TODAY archives from March 2007

Burying America's brave soldiers.(YOUR LIFE)
March 1, 2007... They are described in the abstract, an intangible, a number, a whisper of a tragedy in the voice of the evening news anchor reading the body count from the latest ambush or bombing overseas. They are the soldiers who have fallen in battle and...

National traumas affect our health.
March 1, 2007... People's gender and ethnicity predicted their immediate response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their general state of health over the following two years, a study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo (N.Y.) and the University of...

A burgeoning field of presidential hopefuls.(YOUR LIFE)
March 1, 2007... With the ultra-early announcements that Sens. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) and Sam Brownback (R.-Kan.) and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson have taken major steps toward becoming presidential candidates for 2008--and let's not forget former...

U.S.-China trade deficit often deceptive.(YOUR LIFE)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The record 2006 trade deficit between the U.S. and China should not be seen as the result of a "nefarious Chinese strategy," maintains a specialist on global trade from Duke University, Durham, N.C. "Data on our trade deficit with China is...

Is U.S.'s storybook image lost forever?(YOUR LIFE)
March 1, 2007... It was once a classic storybook image: The American family with a middle class income, 2.5 children, a nice car to get around town, and a white picket fence with a house behind it. Life was good. Now that image is distorted severely. Middle...

What really makes a dream home?(YOUR LIFE)
March 1, 2007... A dream home is not always spending $5,000,000 for a 5,000-square-foot lakeside villa complete with a pool, spa, theater, and gym. According to a national survey conducted by Beazer Homes USA, Inc., Atlanta, 61% of those polled identify their...

Outsourcing slows full-time employment.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Private sector contracting results in lower full-time public employment and higher numbers of part-time government workers, demonstrates a study of nearly 500 city and county governments by Indiana University, Bloomington, and the University...

Vacations improve staff productivity.(employee vacations)(Survey)
March 1, 2007... Feeling guilty about spending time away from the office? You may be doing your company a favor. Some 51% of executives surveyed by Accountemps, Menlo Park, Calif., a specialized staffing service for temporary accounting, finance, and...

Battling over bucks in spender-saver marriage.(YOUR LIFE)
March 1, 2007... To you, money in the bank equals peace of mind. You gladly make due with your old, paid-for car, last season's fashions, and frequent leftovers in order to shore up that nest egg. Your spouse, however, lives on a different planet. He is...

The specter of Vietnam.(STATE OF THE NATION)(Viewpoint essay)
March 1, 2007... ONE'S VIEW OF THE PAST is shaped by the present, just as I one's view of the present is shaped by the past. So it is with Vietnam and Iraq. The doves that oppose the war in Iraq have one history of the Vietnam War, just as the hawks that...

War with Iran is not the answer.(National Affairs)
March 1, 2007... IT APPEARS INCREASINGLY likely that the Bush Administration's diplomatic approach to Iran will tail to prevent that country from going nuclear, and that the U.S. will have to decide whether to use military force to attempt to delay Iron's...

Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and what is he really after?(Worldview)(Biography)
March 1, 2007... WHO IS MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad? Before his meteoric rise to power in the summer of 2005, Iran's ultraconservative president was a relative political unknown. Since taking office, however, the 50-year-old Ahmadinejad has done much to demonstrate his...

China: dealing with destiny.(WORLD WATCHER)
March 1, 2007... CHINA: THE NAME REVERBERATES throughout the historical accounts of every society around the globe, those recognitions dating back thousands of years. Silk, gunpowder, martial arts, fine porcelain, jade jewelry, and contemplative religions are...

Life after the atomic bomb.(The World Yesterday)
March 1, 2007... ON AUG. 6 AND 9, 1945, THE U.S. DROPPED atomic bombs--first on Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki--in order to end the war with Japan. This marked the first time in history that weapons of such mass destruction were used against civilians. Within...

Is Europe's economic giant sputtering?(The World Today)
March 1, 2007... GERMANY IN THE YEAR 2007 is an economic paradox. On the one hand, it clearly is an affluent and technologically advanced nation. It is the fifth largest economy in the world and the biggest in Europe. Its gross domestic product of 2.8 trillion...

Gustave Dore and l'annee terrible et la semaine sanglante.(Art History)
March 1, 2007... The Franco-Prussian War--a significant chapter in the personal and professional life of artist Paul Gustave Dore--produces a tragic and terrible year (and one horribly bloody week) in France's history, as Napoleon III's troops are crushed by...

Treasured arts from Latin America.(Tesoros/Treasures/Tesouros: The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820, touring exhibition )
March 1, 2007... A PAN-NATIONAL EXHIBITION of some 250 works of art created in the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain (which today comprises Mexico and the countries of Central America) and Peru (now the nations of Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela,...

Sports of all sorts.(art exhibition at Jundt Art Museum)
March 1, 2007... IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS, March is a month of transition, as the staples of early winter--football's college bowl games and Super Bowl--give way to, among other things, ice skating, hockey, and, at long last, baseball, the latter's spring...

Game ball.(SPORTS SCENE)(Editorial)
March 1, 2007... THERE WAS NO NEED for a camera, for the image never will leave my mind--how could it? Along the third base line at the North Street Field--score sheets, lineup cards, and clipboards in hand--stood the Yankee braintrust: their stubble-faced...

Annie get your camera.(Focus on Photography)(Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005)
March 1, 2007... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ'S witty, powerful portraits have been appearing on magazine covers for more than 30 years, and she is recognized as one of the most celebrated photographers of our time. She was born in Waterbury, Conn., and spent her childhood...

Stop compromising on "civil unions".(American Thought)
March 1, 2007... THE TERM "civil marriage" or "civil union" has become a euphemism for the legal and social legitimation of homosexuality. In current public conversation, the phrase no longer means the wedding of a man and woman conducted by a civil...

When love goes missing.(Psychology)
March 1, 2007... "I TAKE YOU to be my wife/husband. I promise to be true to you in good times and bad, in sickness and in health. I will love and honor you all the days of my life." Marriage is a contract with a fairly short list of deal-breakers. Finances,...

Stan and Ollie still rule.(REEL WORLD)
March 1, 2007... IN RESEARCHING EVERY MAJOR screen comedian during Hollywood's golden age, stretching from the 1920s until the early 1950s, one uncovers an army of critics putting forth a case for the inherent superiority of their favorites. Yours truly would...

Daring wives: why women cheat.(Life in America)(Essay)
March 1, 2007... FORTY PERCENT of women cheat, some research suggests. The incidence of female infidelity has more than doubled in the last 36 years. While men still cheat more than women, the gender gap is closing. Just what is happening to the fair sex? ...

An avalanche of information.(WORDS IMAGES)
March 1, 2007... NEVER IN THE HISTORY of humankind have we ever had so much information available so quickly, and yet most of us are drowning in the sheer volume of so many conversations, personal diaries, pseudo-facts, figures, stories, events, ideas, and...

Why so many murder-suicides?(LAW & JUSTICE)
March 1, 2007... ANYONE WHO READS or watches the news is aware of the spate of murder-suicides taking place. We have seen school shootings, family killings, and adult partner murders--all ending in suicide or attempted suicide. Yet, most of these cases are not...

Time for Plan B.(ECONOMIC OBSERVER)
March 1, 2007... SINCE THE FIRST EARTH DAY almost 40 years ago, we have won many environmental battles; too bad we are losing the war. Our early 21st-century civilization is on an economic path that is destroying and disrupting the natural systems on which it...

The devil made them do it.(rhetoric)(Editorial)
March 1, 2007... THE STUDY OF RHETORIC and the relationship between situations and rhetoric have critical importance for understanding and criticizing some of the more invalid practices of psychiatry. None of these applications is more apt and more important...

Sweating the hothouse.(air pollution control)
March 1, 2007... RECOGNIZING THAT GLOBAL WARMING fast may be approaching the point of no return and that the world cannot wait for our Federal government to act, hundreds of American city mayors have pledged to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. By signing the...

Charting a course toward better education.(Education)
March 1, 2007... THE NEW DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED 110th Congress is scheduled to consider reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which will be the ninth reauthorization of the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). Yet, five...

I'll take my seat medium well-done.(Hyperion Seating Corp.)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... While it may feel like spring is in the air--though somedays only through wishful thinking--save for a few gems here and there, we still have some time to go before the warm weather truly is upon us. At no time is this more apparent than when...

We can hear you, baby--loud and clear.(WHAT'S NEW?)
March 1, 2007... As parents, one thing we always are angling for is a little peace of mind, followed closely by a small amount of time for ourselves. With the investment in a good baby monitor, we can have both. The LCD Digital Baby Monitor ($199.99) from...

Traveling with kids just got much easier.(WHAT'S NEW?)(Product/service evaluation)
March 1, 2007... Seasoned travelers know that, when on the move with youngsters, it makes a lot more sense to plan some entertainment rather than leaving things to chance. When we're embarking on a trip longer than, say, around the corner, the first thing we do...

Here's one less reason to worry.(WHAT'S NEW?)(Product/service evaluation)
March 1, 2007... When you ask parents about their biggest concerns, the answers, almost exclusively, relate to the safety of their children. One way that we can do more to protect our offspring is through the use of car seats. Having a child buckled properly in...

There's nothing like a good piece of luggage.(Basic Collection)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... When traveling, especially through airports, it certainly helps to have a quality piece of luggage--one that features wheels that roll really well and sturdy construction so you know your valuables are secure. Or is it more important to be...

Cars are in need of spring cleaning, too.(WHAT'S NEW?)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... It is inevitable this time of year--you wake up on a Saturday morning to beautiful, warm weather. When you step outside, you notice seemingly all of your neighbors have come out of hibernation and are puttering around their yards. While some...

Painting is so easy with just a Twist.(WHAT'S NEW?)(Product/service evaluation)
March 1, 2007... A relatively easy and inexpensive do-it-yourself project is repainting. Selecting just the right color can produce dramatic results. Do you want to make a bold statement or create a serene oasis? Indeed, a fresh coat of paint can change the...

Fix that flat minus the sweating.(WHAT'S NEW?)
March 1, 2007... Face it: Flat tires happen at the most inopportune moments. North Shore Laboratories Corp., Peabody, Ma., has a solution to make permanent repairs on any small, tubeless tire, such as those on ATVs, lawn and garden equipment, golf carts, or...

Don't slip--get a (garden) grip.(WHAT'S NEW?)
March 1, 2007... When heading out to do gardening or yard work, our first inclination often is to throw on an old pair of sneakers. This may not be the smartest or safest thing to do. (There are more than 70,000 emergency room visits each year by homeowners...

Dynamite makes plants explode with growth.(Florikan's Dynamite Premium Fertilizers )
March 1, 2007... While we all may know that trees, shrubs, flowers, and vegetable plants should be fertilized in order to thrive, for many of us, it's an overwhelming project. We just don't feel confident in our knowledge of when and how to feed our plants, and...

Museum memo.(museums)(Calendar)
March 1, 2007... What's new in museums around the country? Among the more interesting exhibitions on view are: Sports of All Sorts, Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University Spokane, Wash., through March 10. Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939,...

Disney's Magic Ice kingdom.(Sarah Kawahara)
March 1, 2007... For my wife and I, it was Edna Mode's clever monologue introducing "The Incredibles" segment. ("[I am] fashion designer to the... Super Heroes. Yes! Enough with the super models--feh!--Spoiled little stick figures with poofy lips....") For...

With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... WITH AMUSEMENT FOR ALL A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830 BY LEROY ASHBY UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY 2006, 648 PAGES, $39.95 Given all the amusements discussed in this book, one wonders how Americans ever have time for work....

Ropes, Reins, and Rawhide All About Rodeo.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... ROPES, REINS, AND RAWHIDE All About Rodeo BY MELODY GROVES UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW MEXICO 2006, 171 PAGES, $34.95 "Ride 'em cowboy!" That is what you will holler and hear at a rodeo, but you also will hear, "Bring 'em home!" to exhort the...

The Mighty Eighth in WWII a Memoir.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... THE MIGHTY EIGHTH IN WWII A Memoir BY BRIG. GEN. J. KEMP McLAUGHLIN UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY 2006, 206 PAGES, $19.95 World War II continues to hold our interest as various books and movies concerning the conflict continue to come on the...

We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE THE MOVIES American Cinema During World War II BY ROBERT L. MELAUGHLIN AND SALLY E. PARRY UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY 2006, 368 PAGES, $40.00 A fascinating study, this book, despite its title, is far from being fluff....

John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... JOHN SUTTER A Life on the North American Frontier BY ALBERT L. HURTADO UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS 2006, 412 PAGES, $34.95 Most persons know about John Sutter largely in connection with the California '49er gold rush. In a much deeper...

A Travel Guide to the Plains Indian Wars.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... A TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE PLAINS INDIAN WARS BY STAN HOIG UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS 2006, 217 PAGES, $21.95 When we think of war within the U.S. it is the Civil War that comes to mind. The battles were legion--Shiloh, Antietiem,...

Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... JAY COOKE'S GAMBLE The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873 BY M. JOHN LUBETKIN UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS 2006, 380 PAGES, $29,95 There is something for everyone in this book. It is about railroad robber barons,...

Is religion good for us?
March 1, 2007... IS ORGANIZED RELIGION GOOD for you, us, or the world'? We often are advised that one never should discuss religion or poll. tics in mixed company. Just look at the hoopla raised when someone suggested that the Pledge of Allegiance omit the...